Revision as of 23:27, 27 May 2013

Can't make the date? If you come to this page before or after the test day is completed, your testing is still valuable, and you can use the information on this page to test, file any bugs you find at Bugzilla, and add your results to the results section. If this page is more than a month old when you arrive here, please check the current schedule and see if a similar but more recent Test Day is planned or has already happened.

What to test?

Today's installment of Fedora Test Day will focus on Virtualization in Fedora 19. Test cases will basic virtualization workflow, some cool functionality, as well as new features introduced in Fedora 19.

Who's available

The following cast of characters will be available testing, workarounds, bug fixes, and general discussion ...

Known issues

Before you begin testing, there are a few known bugs that should be taken into account:

running libvirtd inside a guest can break that guests networking. you can work around this by using 'sudo virsh net-edit default' inside the VM, and change all instances of 192.168.122 to 192.168.123 and restarting the VM: bug 811967

What's needed to test

Hardware virtualization support (e.g. Intel VT or AMD-V) (see Is My Guest Using KVM?). If unavailable, you can still help with testing QEMU support.

Up to 10-20Gb free disk space. Guest images take up a lot of space.

Get the packages with: yum groupinstall virtualization

As for getting the latest virt packages, you have a few options:

Virt Test Day Live CD

There's a Fedora 19 live CD image that already has all the required virtualization packages installed (though you should still yum update after booting). You will probably want a good amount of RAM if using this option (greater than 4G) since you'll be using RAM for both a VM and running the live OS.

If you have a really beefy machine, you can probably run the Live CD in a VM using nested virtualization! (see instructions below)

Fedora 19 on a physical machine

The preferred testing platform is a fully updated Fedora 19 machine. You have a few options for getting the Fedora 19 bits:

Install with CD/DVD

You can download the Fedora 19 Beta in various formats here. Note: the Beta will be officially released on 2013-05-28, the day of the Test Day; if you wish to download it ahead of time, the images can be found here.

Test Results

Results from this web application will be automatically transferred to the Wiki on 2013-06-11 and the reporting system will be shutdown. Feel free to continue testing and filling the wiki even after this date.